REPORT: 49 GOP Congressional Candidates Join Ginni Thomas-Led Assault On Education

[ProSense]

REPORT: 49 GOP Congressional Candidates Join Ginni Thomas-Led Assault On Education

Senate candidates Ken Buck (R-CO) and Sharron Angle (R-NV) have both received significant attention for their absurd claim the federal Department of Education is unconstitutional, but because House races generally receive much less media attention than the higher-profile Senate contests, it’s unclear just how common this radical position is among the GOP’s full slate of candidates.

A questionnaire circulated by Liberty Central, the right-wing group led by Supreme Court spouse Ginni Thomas, sheds a great deal of light on this question — and the answer is not pretty. Of the 60 candidate questionnaires submitted by current GOP nominees for a House or Senate seat that ThinkProgress reviewed for this report, at least 49 adopt a view that would declare much — if not all — of federal education policy unconstitutional.

The Liberty Central questionnaire includes the following question:



The overwhelming majority of GOP candidates who submitted this questionnaire answered “no” to this question, a position that would drastically limit the federal government’s ability to help struggling schools, and which could also threaten Medicaid and other essential programs. Several of these candidates offered ahistorical, ideological and occasionally paranoid constitutional theories:

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In other words, just like the many GOP Senate candidates who believe that the Constitution means whatever they want it to mean, much of the Republican slate of House candidates have no compunctions about inventing new and incoherent ways of reading the document in order to undermine laws they don’t like. For more on the implications of Ginni Thomas’ positions on essential programs such as Medicaid, and for a full list of the 49 Republican Congressional candidates endorsing her group’s vision of the Constitution, visit the Wonk Room.

Looks like Republicans aren't going to stop until they repeal the Constitution.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Are they going to join Ginni T in assaulting truth, too?

Or are they all too busy watching Republicon Family Values Videos (Nudge,nudge, wink, wink)

[elleng]

2. Well, at least, if this issue is ever presented to Supremes,

there will only be 8 members voting!

Sorry, you dumb broad! (ginni, that is)

[droidamus2]

3. If you think about it

At the time of the Revolutionary War the conservatives would have been the Tories and sided with King George. Look at them now they want a moneyed aristocracy where leaders have a 'divine right' (meaning they are in their position by God's will, well actually because they protect the uber-rich) and the rest of us are serfs to do their bidding, fight their holy wars and maintain their palatial mansions. They also want to void the constitution and go back to a 'church run' theocratic way of law (of course what that means is that they state their personal opinion and then find some line in the Bible to try and show that it is God's will). By their ideas the rich are rich because of God's will, he wants them to be rich. The poor are poor because they are lazy losers and deserve whatever life does to them. The middle class, well we don't really need a middle class unless you consider the 'trade guilds' as representative of 'middle class living'.